Random House
Angelica
Nothing is as it seems in internationally bestselling author Phillips’ third novel. Set in Victorian England, this tale of the…
A Needle in the Right Hand of God
This book is subtitled The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry. While the…
The Better Angels of Our Nature
The title, a phrase from Lincoln’s 1861 inaugural address, haunts the brutal Civil War that followed. The phrase also describes…
Finn
Huckleberry Finn’s drunken father is the inspiration for this novel, which owes more to William Faulkner in style than the…
In the Company of the Courtesan
The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant’s first historical novel, is one of my all-time favorite books. Dunant writes with…
The Foreign Correspondent
Carlo Weisz is an Italian émigré living in Paris and working for Reuters, covering the Spanish Civil War during…
Any Approaching Enemy
After an American spy tells him of a French fleet amassing in the Mediterranean, Charles Edgemont, captain of His…
The Poe Shadow
Baltimore lawyer and Poe admirer Quentin Clark has a promising law practice and, after shaking off his cluelessness regarding…
The Memoirs of Catherine the Great : A New Translation
This new edition of the Memoirs is a thorough and sympathetic introduction to Catherine’s writing. They cover the years…
A Sudden Country
A story of survival, A Sudden Country is a fictionalized chronicle of real events on the 1847 Oregon migration. Former…
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